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What would you do if at age 40 you discovered you had been sexually abused? Mary Boll and her husband Nevin decided they would help others and their families prevent others from being taken advantage.
We provided our 5 day training and scholarship support to their training and work so they could impact others. They have given over 40 presentations in just a very short period of time. They can be reached at 717-627-1611, or jnboll@dejazzd.com.
How Do You Promote Peace And Harmony?
Posted by: | CommentsHow do you feel about mass murders – where one human being in pain kills and injures numerous others? Newspaper, television, and radio report these kinds of things as the nation’s worst slaughters. It all happens in a very short period of time. The person doing the killing may have been depressed, lost a job, reported as always being quiet, or always being angry.
Can you see the damaging effects of unintact Self-Esteem? Self-Esteem is the self respect you feel for yourself. Anyone who commits this kind of crime had intact Self-Esteem when he was born. Yet, some people during his life taught him not to love himself. Gradually, he became angry. He repeated that behavior until the pain was so intense he felt he could only find peace in killing. This is a perfect example of a person who was devalued during his lifetime.
What can we learn from these events? I believe we need to appreciate the importance of affirming children starting at a very early age and continue the process for a lifetime. Do you compliment children when you meet them? Do you find it easy to help
people feel comfortable when you meet them? Do you make it a habit to avoid criticizing people? It requires diligent effort to change a habit.
Every day we add a new layer to our life. If the significant people in our lives helped us to feel important, then it is easy to help others feel important. Millions of people wake up every day lonely and depressed. Picture what would happen if they met someone like you who had intact Self-Esteem. They could receive compliments from you every day.
You can never take a vacation from your Self-Esteem, because you are the only one who is with you 24 hours a day. You have choices. First, decide to develop your Self-Esteem by being kind and gentle with yourself. Be aware of your self-talk. Notice how you treat yourself. Do you reward yourself daily? How well do you pamper you? You have the potential to influence the Self-Esteem of others to the degree you have intact Self-Esteem. You can only give what you have, nothing more. How would you feel if someone would say to you, “I like me best when I am with you”?
Compliment someone daily and then, watch what happens!
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Are You Preparing Teens For Life?
Posted by: | CommentsDo you have trouble understanding teenagers? Do you remember your teenage years? Seven powerful years make up the teen experience.
Teenagers want to be accepted and included. They want to be part of the group. Peer pressure is the big challenge to survival in the teen years. What are some of the issues? A few of the pressures include: cars, sports success, college acceptance, acquiring all the best and most current clothes, and being invited to the “in” parties. What about other issues like: alcohol, drugs, exercise, nutrition, getting along with parents, summer jobs, boredom in school, school dropouts, both parents working, and a hunger for friendship?
So how do we communicate with teenagers for seven years to prepare them for life? How do we speak their language? Teenagers have their own language. We need to learn everyone’s language if we want to communicate at the highest level. However, teen language changes from day to day. How do we keep current? Advertisers need to appeal to teenagers, so research discovers the new language, to guarantee billions of dollars of product sales.
Teenagers learn the language so they can survive those seven trying years. I believe we need to teach Self-Esteem language to teens. Would you like to learn a universal Self-Esteem language to help your communication skills? Are you interested in releasing words that can cut to the core? Is it important for you to model behavior that can serve you and your teenagers? Are you willing to practice even if your teenager chooses not to participate?
In our personal development seminars we show people how to begin by eliminating three words. These words can be harmful to you and others’ Self-Esteem because they set people up to compare. Comparison destroys Self-Esteem. The three words you want to begin releasing from your vocabulary are “Should”, Ought”, and “Must”. Have you or your teenager ever been told, “You should do this. You ought to do that. You must do it this way.”? The replacement for these word are: “Need”, “Want” and “Consider”.
Test these words for the next 30 days and then, watch what happens!
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